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Peter Walker

Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project. He fervently hopes to join Carta’s #doggies Slack channel with a pup of his own someday soon.
State of Private Markets: Q3 2023

The downturn that has defined the venture capital industry for much of the past two years continued in the third quarter of 2023.

First Cut — State of Private Markets: Q3 2023

Initial data from Q3 2023 suggests the recovery from last year’s declines in venture capital valuations is still in its initial stages.

State of startup compensation, H1 2023

The past year's decline in startup fundraising had major effects on startup employee compensation.

State of pre-seed fundraising: Q2 2023

Introducing our first State of Pre-seed fundraising report.

State of Private Markets: Q2 2023

The venture economy stabilized somewhat in Q2.

First Cut — State of Private Markets: Q2 2023

In Q2 2023, startup valuations showed signs of a comeback from the venture downturn that started in early 2022.